Copy a File into the Startup folder with Java

Question

I want to code a program in which the user can turn on "Autostart", that means that the Program will automatically start when the Windows 10 PC Starts.

Doing it manually is simple, I can put a shortcut or the .jar File in the Windows Startup folder, but when I try to make this toggleable from my program, I get a problem.

public void run() {
    File src = new File("Test.txt"); //my test File
    File dst = new File("C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\StartUp\\itWorked.txt"); //StartUp Folder

    try {
        Files.copy(src.toPath(), dst.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING); //Copy
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

This is my code to copy files, if I copy my "Test.txt" to my Desktop, it works but when I try to copy this into the Startup Folder, it throws me a <java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException>

I also tried starting my program from cmd with Administrator-rights but it didn't work either.

How can I copy a File into the Startup Folder from Windows to let my program automatically run after a PC restart using Java Code?

PS: it only have to work on Windows 10

Answer 1

Use the following instead, to use the user's own startup folder. It would need to be done per user though.

System.getProperty("user.home") + "\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup"

Probably better, because it also works if the user changed where the roaming data is stored:

System.getenv("APPDATA") + "\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup"